The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8, sentence 79
And as his hot tears fell on her face like rain, Shrí opened her dying eyes: and instantly they were full of peace, for she knew that it was her husband at last.
Who acts: hot tears, Shrí, tears, blood · What happens: fall, open, die, be, know · To what, where: face, dying eyes, last, husband · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, A Sleep and a Dream., part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hot tears, Shrí, tears, blood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fell | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 tears | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tears | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tears | amod |
| 5 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 face | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 rain | case |
| 11 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 face | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 opened | punct |
| 13 | Shrí | Shrí | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fell | conj |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 opened | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 full | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 full | cc |
| 20 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 23 full | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 full | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 full | cop |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fell | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 peace | case |
| 25 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 full | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 knew | punct |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 knew | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 knew | nsubj |
| 29 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 full | conj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 husband | mark |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 husband | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 husband | cop |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 husband | nmod:poss |
| 34 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 knew | ccomp |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 last | case |
| 36 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 knew | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Umra's hot tears | sword's face like rain | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location | ||||
| 2 | open | past | Shrí | sword's dying eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | tears = tear | of peace; full, instantly property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | know | past | Shrí | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | blood | sword's husband | sword nmod:poss | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The descent of the sun: A cycle of birth» by Unknown, Project Gutenberg book 68641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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